Justice, between cognitive deteriorations and selective amnesias

Today the analysis could last as long as a TV news broadcast. Let's start: today marks one year since the big blackout. April 28th. It was a day like today, more or less. We were heading into summer. Sunshine and mild temperatures. Lucky for us. And it started when the kids were at school and people were at work. And it ended at night. The responsibility for the blackout has been diluted in a chain of problems that presented themselves in a cascade, and nothing has happened here.Jordi Pujol has already slept at his home tonight, in Barcelona, where he arrived yesterday evening quite tired, with the frustration of not having been able to declare and knowing that he has not been able to receive an acquittal of which he was convinced.Don't miss this chronicle by our delegate in Madrid, Núria Orriols, full of details about the two hours the former president spent at the National Court. They asked him what years he was president and he got it right, from 1980 to 2003. But when they asked him if he knew what he was accused of, he started to ramble.But, above all, don't miss the in-depth reflection by Jordi Nieva-Fenoll, professor of procedural law at the University of Barcelona:

That it is not essential for the judge to have the interrogated persons physically present, and that, therefore, they could have testified remotely. But, above all, "why do processes take so long to be held? This one began in 2014, and its first phase – the investigation – ended in July 2020, and since then we have been waiting for the trial that is now taking place. The answer is the collapse of cases that a court suffers, which, as the heir of the Transition of the Public Order Court, should have disappeared long ago: the National High Court. One should ask whether this inevitable delay in processes – the court is, after all, small – along with the political relevance of many of them, means that there are no legislative plans for its essential abolition". A professor says this. Twelve years have passed, and in this very long investigation, and until it was declared concluded and the trial was set, nothing new has emerged.

Also in the courts,

Sáenz de Santamaría also remembers nothing about the Kitchen. 'Nothing' means the same as Rajoy or Cospedal: "It is not on my record", "I don't remember", "I have no knowledge of it", "I was not Minister of the Interior". No, she was vice-president of the government, minister of the Presidency (and, therefore, responsible for espionage), and ran for party leader. And she knew nothing about it? Nobody believes that. Of course, these events happened thirteen years ago, she can't remember them. Between one who can no longer remember and the other who remembers nothing, this week justice has appeared subordinated to political power.

Meanwhile, doctors went on strike again and teachers don't want police in schools. Justice is slow and people's problems are very fast.

Good morning.